EXTRACTHowever, Alberta’s environment minister, Diana McQueen, gave EurActiv a blunt denial when asked if she thought that tar sands had hurt Canada’s image.

“I don’t think it’s been damaging,” she said, “because we’ve actually taken some very strong movements to move forward, with regard to monitoring and making sure that our science advisors are science-based.”

Canada has faced heavy criticism for cutting climate science budgets, shutting Arctic climate research stations, sacking climate researchers, and forbidding those that remain from talking freely to the media.

Comment by Janice Robinson on 23rd March 2013As a taxpayer in British Columbia you will be paying Gordon Campbell $100,000 per year....until he dies. That's his "pension."

Plus all the money paid to him, by Canadians, for all the B.S. coming out of his mouth over on the British Isles.

Almost makes one want to puke in one's mouth.

I was told that among the Scots...

Comment by Helmut Giesbrecht on 12th March 2013...there is a saying, "Never trust a Campbell!"

There are more important issues

Comment by david dickinson on 11th March 2013Not that I'm a Tar Sands supporter or anything, but I am very disappointed that, outside of BC and Canada, the public has so little awareness of Campbell's referendum on treaty rights. This referendum was natives and non-natives voting together to decide the natives' fate. Obviously, as non-natives outnumber the natives more than 10 to 1, the outcome could only reflect the wishes of the non-natives.

Now replace "natives" with "Scots". How would the Scots feel if their fate was to be determined by the English majority by referendum?

Yet this is what Gordon Campbell is promoting in Britain. He is total disgrace to his Scottish name. Or maybe he is just confirming that the Campbells are nothing but a bunch of traitors....

If the Brits tried to pull this on the Scots, there would be revolution, assassinations, and civil war.

Why is there not an Idle No More contingent travelling throughout Britain and the rest of Europe exposing this dangerous, racist bigot for what he is?